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that's a very funny cartoon; Unfortunately, the hold-up character should be an elephant in order to be accurate and the label should say 'Republican'.

For a few years after Ross Perot got so many votes in 92 as an anti-government candidate the congress did in fact slow down growth in government spending dramatically. But Republicans took over the House in 95, at that point they had more control over the budget process than the Democrats. I read in National Review that in the years 1995-1999 the annual growth rate in the federal budget exceeded the annual growth rate in the years 1990-1994 when the democrats had more control over the budget. The defense increases did not begin until after Bush got in, so you can't excuse this with defense spending.

Then, when Bush became president the lid on spending really went off. Bush increased spending on the Department of Education in his first year from about 30 billion a year to about 60 billion a year. With 60 billion dollars a year you can give $10,000 vouchers to 6 million kids' parents, or you can give $6,000 vouchers to 10 million kids' parents. Bush preferred to give this money to bureaucrats, talk about a pipe dream, he thinks the money is better spent like that.

In Bush' second year in office he's growing the government by 13.9%. This is faster than at any time since LBJ when vietnam war expenses and great society expenses were foisted onto taxpayers all at once. The majority of this increase is not for defense spending or homeland security.

So, I would have to say that the cartoon is delusional or outdated. We as a people need to beat up both the democrat and the republican party. We need to systematically throw big spending incumbents out. We re-elect 95% of all incumbents regardless of party, so the incumbents, regardless of party, can and do walk on us.

Sadly, as someone told me here, I am on the dark side. Meaning that I am looking forward in November to voting mostly democrat. In those individual races where I've already chosen the democrat over the republican it is because the republicans are incumbents who have done harm to me. The democrat challengers have not harmed me as of yet. If they do harm me while in office, then I'll vote against them later. This includes both national and state races.

Don't vote for the lesser of two evils, vote no on incumbents who are bad.